Eckhardt Bodenschatz

Eckhardt Bodenschatz (18 April 1909-18 April 1945) was an officer in the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Eckhardt Bodenschatz was born in Fulda, Hesse, German Empire on 18 April 1909, and he became an officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Bodenschatz commanded a squad of German troops on the Eastern Front, and he captured Red Army soldiers Dimitri Petrenko and rifleman Pvt. Bulenkov at the Battle of Seelow Heights on 18 April 1945 (his 36th birthday). He was sprayed with machine-gun fire by Viktor Reznov when Red Army troops stormed the building, and he was put out of his misery by Petrenko, who shot him with his Mosin-Nagant rifle.